Semiotic Reading

What is semiotics? In the reading I learned that it involves the study of different types of sign in everyday speech and anything, which stands for something else. According to C.W. Morris semiotics embraces the relationship of signs to what they stand for (semantics), the formal or structural relation between signs (syntactics) and the relation of signs to interpreters (pramatics). There are many forms of semiotics. People involved in semiotics “include linguists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, literary, aesthetics and media theorists, psychoanalysts and educationalists.” The press uses a semiotics by using pictures, words, graphic design and printing. The radio is also a form of semiotics. The announcer uses sound recording and broadcasting. The television uses technologies of sound, image and broadcasting to create a form of semiotics. Language is almost the most powerful communication system by far because it can convey information about all aspects. Semiosis is the process, which a culture produces signs and/or attributes meaning to sign. Through semiotics we learned that we live in a world of signs we would not understand this world without these signs and codes, which they are organized.